The US government is concerned over the rushed resettlement of the final batch of IDPs from Menik Farm due to what it states are inadequacies in infrastructure on the land which it claims was “hastily cleared”.

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the Sri Lankan government to find a speedy political solution to the underlying factors behind the country's civil war which ended three years ago in May 2009.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is attending the first ever Asia Cooperation Dialogue Summit in Kuwait, held discussions with several Asian leaders Tuesday on the on the sidelines of the Summit.

The Sri Lankan government said today said the former international wing leader and chief arms procurer of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP is free from prosecution as there was no evidence against him.

Democratic National Alliance Galle district parliamentarian Ajith Kumara today filed a petition in Supreme Court appealing to declare the Criminal Procedure Code (Special Provisions) Act not in conformity with the Constitution.

Beginning a new era in communication Sri Lanka's first communication satellite will take to orbit on November 22 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China and it will be positioned over Sri Lanka.

ColomboPage on October 12 incorrectly reported that the Sri Lankan government has decided to join with a minter to establish a firm to print monetary coins from next year. We regret the error and the corrected story follows.

Sri Lanka's long civil came to an end in 2009, the town of Puthukudiyiruppu was left with a grim legacy. Landmines and other unexploded devices lie behind every tree, in every ditch, in houses, churches and temples. Many were randomly scattered by Tamil Tiger rebels in the final months before their defeat. Both the rebels and the army made extensive use of Pakistani-made P4 mines, which can take the foot off someone unfortunate enough to step on them.